Open Horn Type Theory: Extending Type Theory with Coherence and Gap
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •OHTT extends dependent type theory with 'coherence' and 'gap' judgments.
- •Gap is a primitive witness of non-coherence, unlike negation.
- •OHTT can model obstructions that HoTT cannot, like transport failures.
- •The semantics are based on ruptured simplicial sets and Kan complexes.
- •Applications include modeling topological, semantic, and logical obstructions.
“The central construction is the transport horn: a configuration where a term and a path both cohere, but transport along the path is witnessed as gapped.”